Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™

This is the game that made my cousin back when there was no intrenet to decide to quit gaming for good. He had already played Monkey Island 1 and 2 and this was the 3rd Lucas game he bought. He spended 3 days trying to solve the Bull's Horns riddle in Crete. This is the stupidest riddle ever. But even with the hintbook riddles such as the robot statue that guards the door seem too difficult to figure out on your own. Objects that you need to reuse many times. Things in the background that you need to notice like the final stones alignment. In Monkey island 2 there was a moment where there is a phone in a tree in the Jungle and you talk to someone. The recent commentary that was added in game says that this was the voice of the woman that worked in the help center and that they made more money from the phonecalls asking for help than they got from the game itself.

It says "Flugeldufel". 'Nuff said.

This version lacks the voice over (Talkie version) and the bundled ScummVM is likely an old one from 2017. Later one can corrected with the free download from the Homepage of ScummVM, the first one would be good to be bundled with this game...

This review relates specifically to the Gog version of the game. I was unable to complete the game due to several game breaking bugs on the team path. The first bug i encountered was when i ran out of orichalcum beads in Atlantis. So i went back to the machine room to create more, which it did, but when i picked them up they didn't appear in my inventory. I needed 2 more beads to continue the game, one to put into Sophia's necklace and one to put into the hulking machine. As i couldn't get access to any more beads i had to quit that playthrough and reload a previous save. Incidentally, i found a Youtube video of someone who ran out of beads just like me, but was able to create more and continue the game. The earlier save i tried also had a game breaking bug which meant i couldn't complete the game. I reloaded from the sub. But was missing the acid to melt the strongbox. So i tried and earlier save and played through the whole submarine level again, only this time for the cave to Atlantis to remain shut. Again preventing any progress. Also had a bug where conversation text appeared over the inventory and wouldn't go away. Such a shame this great game was ruined for me by so many game breaking bugs. It's a really funny but frustrating game and really enjoyed playing what i coulds of it. Try it at your peril. You may be luckier than me with the bugs.

I've endured some punishing adventure games (the stairs mechanics in early King's Quest, for example), but this is in the running with Monkey Island 2 for most irritating. The first thing that really bothered me was the puzzle involving the surveyor's tool. There's a diagram showing how the lines are supposed to be aligned, which *does not match* the actual puzzle solution. After playing around with it for a while, I looked up the solution on UHS, and was glad that I didn't waste any more time on it. As with Monkey Island 2, the thing that is unacceptable is the endgame. You are treated to a maze with a lot of rooms which are just decoration, but *some* of the rooms are really important, and have puzzles and items which solve puzzles. The maze is very large, and you'll never be sure that you've gotten everything from each room, *and* it's patrolled by enemy soldiers who you have to avoid. *Except*, if you avoid them entirely, you'll miss that one of them is carrying something that you need to solve a puzzle. If you fight them, they regenerate, so you're always dodging around them while you're scavenger-hunting for everything that you might need. If you miss even one item, you have to wander around the whole maze looking for it, wondering if maybe you already *have* the solution in your inventory but haven't pieced together that a ribcage and a sausage can be combined to make a crab-trab, and that maybe a crab can be used as food for a hungry octopus, which eats crabs (there's no indication that octopuses like to eat crabs, or that crabs eat sausages, it's just dumb AG logic that you have to apply). If you get through all of this, you arrive at a statue that is powered by beads you've made in a machine at the beginning of the maze. You think you have an infinite supply, but you can run out, and if you do you have to go *all the way back* to the beginning of the maze, dodging enemies while you do. This game was what walkthroughs were *made* for.